I've been talking about this in the 92-00 Civic forum for the last week now and I've been getting 2 answers and my own theory since I'm the one that has the problem. I've been suggest my CV boot ripped and my shock blew. I personally think my upper control arm/ camber kit ball joint boot ripped.

Last week my car took a 2-4 inch fall when the road suddenly changed levels on the driver front tire. My shocks were still worknig properly so I didn't think anything of it. My defense to why the shock shouldn't be blown is because it still gives equal resistance as the front passenger shock, when I push down on either side of the car (alot of resistance). My other defense is the fact that there's grease splatter marks of some sort all over my wheel well and the fact that there's black grease all under the boot of my camber kit's ball joint. This is what gave me the conclusion that it isn't my CV boot, since that looked clean while the ball joint looks like I struck oil under it. When I was about to change my axel (since I assumed it was that) I noticed that there was alot of grease buildup under the ball joint boot so I started poking around under there. The grease was in every nook and cranny between the knuckle and the ball joint. My guess is it cracked where the pin/ threading of the ball joint meets the rubber, would you guys agree? Or would you go with the shocks/ CV boot? On random bumps it would make thumping noises, at low speed only, and it would roll more on right turns but turn perfectly on lefts still. If the car ever bottoms out, it's not hard and the car doesn't bounce around alot. The worst noise I'll hear is light scraping on the top of the splash guard but no banging from any sort of bottoming out.

If you need specs, it's:
2000 civic EX
KYB AGX with ground controls
skunk2 pro camber kit in the front
stock axels

 

What exactly are the symptoms?

 

On random bumps it would make thumping noises, at low speed only, and it would roll more on right turns but turn perfectly on lefts still. It doesn't roll like a stock car, but it definitely rolls slightly more, whereas a similar turn to the left would have almost no roll.

Oh there's also a strut bar if that matters.

 

If the whole car rolls more one way than the other it's most likely a spring or shock problem. You could have bent the shock.
A broken open boot won't change the handling characteristics of the car. Unless the ball joint is fried of course.
Usully the grease in the ball joints doesn't come out much even with a cracked boot. If you have a pin hole in the CV boot it will spin grease in a line with the hole. It gets all over the place.

 

How do I check if my shock is okay without removing it? Would the bend in it be visible?It's a KYB AGX, so the adjuster on the top of it still rotates fine and adjusts accordingly. I've felt around the CV boot multiple times and compared it to the other CV boot twice. They both look exactly the same and feel the same. I spread apart the folds as well and couldn't find anywhere that had any remnance of grease being spurted. The other thing is that the splatter marks look like it was my tire that splattered the grease, since the marks are aligned with the tire and not the CV boot.

Well I ordered a ball joint replacement from street level performance, I'll get that in a week or so I hope... After I replace that I'll see how things go The sound is similar to when one of the camber kit bolts that bolt it to the car was loose, but only thumps on random dips/ lumps in the road. Not even big ones, small ones do it and 1 or 2 random big ones.

What do you mean unless the ball joint is fried?

 

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